LALIQUE CRYSTAL
Set of 6 Lalique Crystal side dishes or crescent shaped salad plates.
The plates design has six circles each with a deeply cut & engraved thistle inside. The detail is fine and the plate is frosted.
Each plate is signed with the script signature "Lalique France" on the bottom right-hand corner just under the curve.
1940's
One of the plates has a small chip on the edge, and the others show the normal usage wear from cutlery, but are otherwise in fine condition.
Dimensions: 20cm diameter x 14.5cm curve to top of plate.
Rene Lalique
Rene Lalique was born 1860, and died 1945. After his first career as a jeweller and being crowned the greatest art nouveau jeweller, at the 1900 Paris exhibition, Rene Lalique went on to become the greatest art deco glass maker. His earliest pieces of glass date from 1910 and even before, but his main production of glass really took off in 1921, after the French Government gave him a factory, on land repossessed from Germany, in Wingen Sur Moder, Alsace.
Rene Lalique, is probably best known for; amazing vases, car mascots, scent bottles and his trade mark opalescent coloured bowls and figures. In fact he made a wide variety of other things, almost anything that could made in glass, and even a few things that should never have been made in glass. Rene Lalique designed an amazing range of over a 100 patterns of tableware, including glasses and often bowls and plates. He also made; a wide range of magnificent lighting, jewellery, boxes, desk and toilette sets, and the list is endless.
After Rene Lalique died in 1945, his son, Marc, removed the ‘R’ from their normal ‘R Lalique’ signature making it easier to identifying proper Rene Lalique from later factory pieces.
The most collectible Rene Lalique glass is the pre 1946 glass signed R Lalique. Over the years Rene Lalique glass has remained probably the most popular and consistent areas of art glass collecting. There has been much greater interest in Rene Lalique glass over the last few years as it is so often praised and shown on TV antiques programmes.
